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Leonardo
(c.1485-1532)
TIMELINE:
The High Renaissance
‘‘The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body
in relief and projecting from that plane.'’
— Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo DA VINCI (b. 1452, Vinci, Republic of Florence [now in
Italy] — d. May 2, 1519, Cloux, Fr.), Italian painter, draftsman,
sculptor, architect, and engineer whose genius, perhaps more than that
of any other figure, epitomized the
Renaissance humanist ideal. His
Last Supper (1495-97) and
Mona Lisa (1503-06) are among the most
widely popular and influential paintings of the Renaissance. His
notebooks reveal a spirit of scientific inquiry and a mechanical
inventiveness that were centuries ahead of his time.
[Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1994]
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